Read by Michael C. Gwynne. Liner Notes by Will Murray
Take Leslie Charteris’ popular rogue, Simon Templar—better known as The Saint—add a dash of Carroll John Daly’s merciless crime-crusher, Satan Hall, then mix well with the Spider, and you have William O’Sullivan’s Captain Satan.
A 1930s Robin Hood, dashing Cary Adair steals from the wealthy—and splits the proceeds with his well-named Satan’s Crew. They are a loose collection of shifty characters with monikers like Doc, Kayo, Soapy, Big Bill and Gentleman Dan—many of whom don’t survive working for the satanic captain for very long. That was the refreshing thing about William O’Sullivan’s dashing demi-hero: In the realistic and hard-hitting milieu he painted, not every heroic henchman lives to fight another day.
As Satan tells them: “You know my principles: To smash every crook I can lay my hands on—and what he has is mine. I’ll break every petty or large crook, every swindling racketeer or grafting politician or gyp banker I can lay my hands on. The terms you already know. What they have is ours. I pay the expenses and take a one third cut. You boys spilt the remainder on equal shares.”
William O’Sullivan was a prolific producer of pulp crime, sports and aviation stories. He penned only five novels for Captain Satan magazine, but they are nice smooth examples of 1938 pulp. And they carry the distinct flavor of Popular Publications—a kind of pulpy Warner Bros. movie on paper.
William O’Sullivan was a prolific producer of pulp crime, sports and aviation stories. He penned only five novels for Captain Satan magazine, but they are nice smooth examples of 1938 pulp. And they carry the distinct flavor of Popular Publications—a kind of pulpy Warner Bros. movie on paper.
One amusing thing about Cary Adair is that he was best buds with the head of the F.B.I.—in this series called Jo Desher. In real life, he was J. Edgar Hoover. Desher soon begins to suspect that his wealthy friend is the brains behind Captain Satan. But proving it is another matter….
The Mask of the Damned chronicles the first exploit of Cary Adair, and is ripped from the pages of Popular Publications’ premier issue of Captain Satan, dated March, 1938. Michael C. Gwynne narrates the action. Also included in this Total Pulp Experience audiobook is William R. Cox’s intriguing short story, "Mr. Detective is Annoyed."
#1 The Mask of the Damned
by William O'Sullivan
Read by Michael C. Gwynne
Chapter 1: Fifty Thousand Witnesses Chapter 2: The Mark of Satan Chapter 3: The Ambassadors from Hell Chapter 4: Satan's Sweepstakes Chapter 5: Danger Trail Chapter 6: Satan's Sanctuary Chapter 7: The Devil Throws the Dice Chapter 8: Satan's Hostage Chapter 9: Black Magic Chapter 10: Into Thin Air Chapter 11: Guts and Guns Chapter 12: The Devil Has a Double Chapter 13: Gentlemen — Be Seated! Chapter 14: Marked for Murder Chapter 15: Payoff in Lead Chapter 16: End of the Hunt
Short Story
Mr. Detective is Annoyed
by William R. Cox
Read by Roger Price
396 MB
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Thank you Dave! And thank you Rick for the heads up on finding the graphics. Still a lot to learn.....Dang Google! Me and Google just don't get along. LOL! I guess it's time I got to know it better.
Larry, it's just a search engine. I learned early that it had an excellent graphics search connected to it. People send stuff to it also. I post new comics straight from the scanners and when I post 99 out of 100 times Google already has a great graphic of the cover for download. ------------------------------------- R
Thanks
Wow!
Here are the graphics for it. - Thanks again Dave!!!! --------------------------------------- R
Thanks Rick for the graphics. My download didn't have the jpegs for some reason.
They never do from there and their graphics are protected. You can get them from Google, just put in the title as a Google search and when the list comes up look across the header line for IMAGES and that will bring up a whole page of pictures and they are usually in the first couple rows of pictures. Do it once and it is really easy after that. You can usually find them in around 750 or better. 750 is full page width on Times Past. Anytime you need to know something about the posting just ask. If I don't know I will find out for you. Excellent posts! ---------------------------------- R
Thank You Dave,
It looks like you found a favorite site to get stories at. They are quite good. I am not a big Audiobook fan but these really hold my interest. Thanks again. --------------------------------------------------- R